Monday 20 May 2013

The London Incident.

So news on 19/05/2013 was this....

"
A gay couple who were walking through a park in south London during the early hours of this morning have been viciously assaulted by a gang of men with one of the attackers saying “stay down faggot.”
The incident happened on Sunday 19 May at around 12:30am.
Christopher Bryant, 42, and his partner Damon Truluck, 38, were walking home across Betts Park in Penge, in the London Borough of Bromley, when six men approached them.
Speaking to PinkNews.co.uk on Sunday afternoon, Mr Bryant said: “We saw them too late to get away. We ran, and I was getting away, but they caught Damon, my partner, and so I doubled back. I tried to get them off him, and that’s when they thumped me to the ground.
“When I looked up to see if he was ok one of them kicked me in the face, and said ‘stay down faggot’. Every time I looked up to see what was happening to Damon they either thumped or kicked me, and said ‘don’t try anything’. They went through my pockets and took my wallet and phone. But they kept hitting. Before they ran off they pushed us together and told us to stay still for 5 minutes or they’d kill us.”
The assault took place just hours after Mr Bryant celebrated his 42nd birthday. He suffered multiple injuries to his face.
Mr Truluck suffered injuries to his back and hip – and is currently finding it difficult to walk.
The couple have now been released from hospital.
Mr Bryant is originally from Cornwall and Mr Truluck from Essex.
The Metropolitan Police Service say they are investigating the incident and have told PinkNews.co.uk that so far no arrests have been made.
Before the attack, both men were raising awareness of Friday’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia through online magazine http://www.polarimagazine.com, of which Mr Bryant is the editor."

The orig story was posted to facebook, but was picked up on by several gay news media outlets, who have claimed that this was a homophobic attack, presumeably going on that he was told to "stay on the floor faggot", but this is where i've yet ANOTHER problem with the gay news.

See to me, this screams out "mugging" and NOT "homophobic attack". How can i come to that conclusion?

A homophobic attack will take place because of a persons sexuality or presumptions over it. Of course, anything can happen during the attack, only last week a man in russia had been found after he'd been violated vith beer bottles to his anus etc, this was confirmed that the attack took place because of the man's sexuality and the country's laws being changed to some quite homophobic extremes.

The attack in london, you may have noticed, didn't take place because they were a gay couple, that was not the motive. This attack had the motive of a typical mugging, which is... "I think you've got what i want and im going to hurt you until i get it, or something of that value". Although the term faggot is thrown around, it's a term which some people have taken from america, where the term is used in a homophobic way, let's still remember that a faggot in the UK is a meatball in gravy thats from scotland.

I do of course though have to face the obv question that everyone has been asking, i mean, WHY are two men innocently walking through a park at night? Where they just walking home, or were other activites taking place?

Of course the pair wouldn't admit to it if they were doing anything and i should point out at the moment that there's nothing to say why they were there for certain, but i personally have my doubts.

I also personally, if i was the one who they couldnt have gotten hold of, would have kept running until i was certain they were not following me, then called for help (Ie, the police) and given a full description and of course helped officers get to the scene once they had arrived in the area, that way theres more chance that the attackers would have been caught, but again, this is purely a split second decision made on the spot and the main person shouldn't face any questioning over his motive to try and save his friend from the attack, which he later found himself in.

There's always going to be attacks like this happening, my reasoning for doing this blog is a very simple one.... simply put, this isn't a homophobic attack, but it is yet again a prime example of how the gay media does love to roll over and play the victim, trying to show the gay community to be under constant attack, when truth of the matter is.... were not always under attack.

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